Aspen Alumni Seminar – Leadership & Character

Aspen Institute España organized, in cooperation with the Aspen Institute (USA) a new seminar on “Leadership and Character” moderated by Todd Breyfogle, Managing Director of Executive Leadership Seminars at The Aspen Institute (USA). The seminar took place at the Real Maestranza de Caballería of Ronda, from the 17^th to 20^th of October, 2019. The seminar is an advanced Aspen Seminar, a “second stage” of the classic Aspen Seminar, in which Alumni from the Aspen Seminar had the opportunity to further reflect and debate about values-based leadership and to learn from one another.

What is character? How is it developed? What are the internal resources that contribute to values-based leadership? How do we cultivate, share, and support a leadership culture—within organizations and in society at large—which emphasizes character?

Building upon the experience of the Aspen España Executive Seminar: Transatlantic Values at a Crossroads, the Leadership and Character Seminar probes the internal context of making leadership decisions and exploring the competing tensions that form our moral compass. Topics include moral courage, character and virtue, power and authority, identity and relationships, conscience, and vision. This seminar, moderated by Todd Breyfogle of the Aspen Institute US, is open to alumni of the Seminar on Transatlantic Values at a Crossroads.